Prototyping Plan
What
A tool that helps you plan your prototyping and testing by looking at the risk areas of your product or service. The Prototyping Plan helps to plan for a test early on to see if (parts of) your product or service work as you expected.
Why
A prototype allows you to test your assumptions about how your product or service will work before you invest in fully developing your solution. It will generate a large amount of useful feedback from future ‘users’ of your solution, which will result in a more relevant and successful product or service.
How
1. Use the the worksheet to plan your prototype.
2. Define what you want to find out about your business through testing with your prototype. Use your Customer Journey and/or Miniature Model to help you to identify the elements of your product or service that you want to test. Identify the parts of your business idea where you foresee major risks (use the fail fair to help you with this), where you have assumptions, or that are crucial for your business to be a success.
Examples of parts of a product or service that can tested include:
• How a customer purchases a product at a mobile kiosk
• How a chat function works
• If people find the right support on your digital platform
• If a customer would trust the information provided through your app
3. Describe the prototype you will create to help you test the objectives. Keep in mind that what you want to find out influences the (parts of your) solution that you will prototype. You can read more about this later on (Prototyping - format).
4. List the assumptions related to your prototype and how customers might engage with it.
Assumptions include:
• Customers use cash to purchase mobile services
• All people have the same type of questions
• If information is from the government, it will be trusted
The project team
This tool has a printable worksheet or a digital version on the next page!
1-4 hours
• Digital or printable worksheet
• Online visualisation tool or paper, pen and camera
Prototyping Plan
Worksheet Instructions
You can fill in this digital worksheet by downloading it as .pptx and filling in the boxes below. You can draw your prototype with an online tool or take a picture of your hand-made sketch.
Objectives:
What do you want to find out about your idea?
Setup the prototype:
Sketch the activities that you want to test with your prototype. You can use an online drawing/visualisation tool like miro or hand-draw and then take a picture of the sketch. You can make very simple drawings that describe what happens during testing and then place them here:
Assumptions:
Write down the assumptions that you want test with your prototype: